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Contact Center Trends 2021: The CX Watershed

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As the focus of contact center turns to creating value rather than reducing expenses, KPIs like customer satisfaction and service level will become increasingly favored over metrics like Average Handling Time. Reducing Abandonment Rate ( read the success story ). Improving Average Handle Time (AHT).

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“Free”: The True Costs of Knowledge Based Authentication Questions?

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Contact Babel research 3 shows that caller abandonment rate i.e. the rate at which calls are not contained in the self-service channel, has been increasing. The abandonment rate has increased from 5.4% in 2012 to 6.1% Reduce Average Handle Time (AHT).